AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. by Treva B. Lindsey (University of Illinois Press; 182 pages; $95 hardcover, $26 paperback). Uses a diverse array of women in the capital to explore the “New Negro” movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert (New York University Press; 320 pages; $89 hardcover, $32 paperback). Discusses black artists, writers, and others who worked to refute scientific racism in the antebellum era.
Mainstreaming Black Power by Tom Adam Davies (University of California Press; 308 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Compares black activism in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta in the 1960s and 70s and mainstream policymakers’ responses to the black power movement; topics include Robert Kennedy’s Community Development Corporation.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Small Countries: Structures and Sensibilities edited by Ulf Hannerz and Andre Gingrich (University of Pennsylvania Press; 346 pages; $65). Writings that offer anthropological perspectives on small countries, here defined both in terms of population size and territory, but excluding such mini-polities as the Vatican and Monaco.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface by Kris Paulsen (MIT Press; 250 pages; $40). Examines works in which one feels visually, aurally, and even tactilely linked to a remote setting through the mediating role of telecommunications devices; topics include Chris Burden’s installations using CCTV.
Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan (University of Minnesota Press; 376 pages; $160 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Examines the interplay of Zionism and architectural modernism in the city’s transformation since Israel took eastern Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays by Fu Xinian, edited by Nancy S. Steinhardt, translated by Alexandra Harrer (Princeton University Press; 448 pages; $49.95). Previously untranslated writings by the Chinese architectural historian on building traditions since the first millennium BC.
COMMUNICATION
Broadcasting and National Imagination in Post-Communist Latvia: Defining the Nation, Defining Public Television by Janis Juzefovics (Intellect Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 164 pages; $50). Draws on Albert O. Hirschman’s concepts of exit, voice, and loyalty in a study of the role of public television in the nation-building efforts of the post-Soviet Baltic republic.
DANCE
Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora by Joanna Dee Das (Oxford University Press; 276 pages; $24.95). A study of the American dancer and choreographer (1909-2006) that examines her use of art in the cause of racial justice; draws on previously untapped archives.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Energy Without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity by David McDermott Hughes (Duke University Press; 191 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Combines history and ethnography in a study of attitudes toward climate change and the fossil fuel economy in Trinidad and Tobago, described here as the world’s oldest petro-state.
In Defence of Home Places: Environmental Activism in Nova Scotia by Mark R. Leeming (University of British Columbia Press; 208 pages; US$75). Traces the history of a politically diverse environmentalist movement in the province in the late 20th century, as well as the disagreements that caused its weakening.
The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists by Kevin J. O’Brien (Georgetown University Press; 240 pages; $49.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Develops a view of climate change as systematic and structural violence, with the worst harm affecting the world’s poor through the actions of the affluent; proposes a response that draws on the activism of John Woolman, Jane Addams, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cesar Chavez.
FILM STUDIES
Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915--1960 edited by Martha J. McNamara and Karan Sheldon (Indiana University Press; 290 pages; $85 hardcover, $35 paperback). Scholarly and other writings on home movies and amateur films produced in the region.
He’s Got Rhythm: The Life and Career of Gene Kelly by Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson (University Press of Kentucky; 560 pages; $39.95). Draws on previously untapped sources in a biography of the actor-dancer.
HISTORY
Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism edited by Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson (University of Illinois Press; 269 pages; $95 hardcover, $28 paperback). Essays on employers’ efforts to thwart unionization since the late 19th century; topics include race, unionism, and the open-shop movement on the Mobile, Ala., waterfront after World War I.
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960-80 by Jeremy Milloy (University of British Columbia Press; 224 pages; US$75). A study of workplace violence at Canadian and U.S. auto plants during the period.
Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso’s Civil War by John Kelso, edited by Christopher Grasso (Yale University Press; 221 pages; $35). Annotated edition, with commentary, of the memoir of a man who experienced both regular and irregular warfare in Missouri as a Union foot soldier, cavalry officer, and spy.
Cherokee in Controversy: The Life of Jesse Bushyhead by Dan B. Wimberly (Mercer University Press; 218 pages; $29). A study of a Cherokee Christian convert, and Baptist minister, who led more than 900 of the tribe from Tennessee to the Indian Territory during the “Trail of Tears.”
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771--1965 by Kelly Lytle Hernandez (University of North Carolina Press; 312 pages; $28). Offers a wider historical context for L.A.'s incarceration of more people than any other city in the United States; documents the interplay of conquest and resistance in the treatment of indigenous, immigrant, and African-American populations.
Discovering the South: One Man’s Travels Through a Changing America in the 1930s by Jennifer Ritterhouse (University of North Carolina Press; 363 pages; $34.95). Examines the Depression Era South through a journey taken in 1937 through 10 states by Jonathan Daniels, the editor of the Raleigh News and Observer; draws on the Southern white liberal’s published writings, unpublished notes, as well as additional archival material.
An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820-1830 edited by Susan M. Ouellette (State University of New York Press; 380 pages; $29.95). Edition of a daybook-style diary that documents the transition from single life to marriage and motherhood for a Quaker woman living in northern Vermont and New York; also includes essays on her life and milieu.
Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea by Jan Ruger (Oxford University Press; 370 pages; $34.95). Examines the history and cultural representation of Heligoland, a contested archipelago in the North Sea.
Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes by Dan Plesch (Georgetown University Press; 272 pages; $29.95). Documents the history of war-crimes prosecutions since indictments while the death camps were still in operation; topics include U.S. efforts to seal the archives of the United Nations War Crimes Commission.
The Legion’s Fighting Bulldog: The Civil War Correspondence of William Gaston Delony, Lieutenant Colonel of Cobb’s Georgia Legion Cavalry, and Rosa Delony, 1853-1863 edited by Vincent Joseph Dooley and Samuel Norman Thomas Jr. (Mercer University Press; 369 pages; $35). Edition of letters exchanged before and during the Civil War between an Athens lawyer turned officer and his wife.
Modernity and the Great Depression: The Transformation of American Society, 1930-1941 by Kenneth J. Bindas (University Press of Kansas; 286 pages; $39.95). Focuses on New Deal programs, world’s fairs, interior decorating, and popular music in a study of how modernist perspectives offered meaning in a period of crisis.
Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival During the Holocaust by Evgeny Finkel (Princeton University Press; 279 pages; $29.95). Discusses cooperation and collaboration; coping and compliance; evasion, and resistance in a comparative study of the choices and actions of Jews in the ghettos of Minsk, Krakow, and Bialystok.
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America by Jennifer Van Horn (University of North Carolina Press; 440 pages; $49.95). Discusses the furniture, clothing, books, and other goods that linked elite consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston.
Reagan and the World: Leadership and National Security, 1981--1989 edited by Bradley Lynn Coleman and Kyle Longley (University Press of Kentucky; 319 pages; $60). Writings by scholars and practitioners on foreign policy under the Reagan administration, which saw six national-security advisors over the president’s two terms; draws on newly declassified material.
Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980 by Craig Shirley (Broadside Books/HarperCollins; 409 pages; $29.99). A biographical study of Ronald Reagan that focuses on how he overcame his defeat for the 1976 Republican nomination to lead a movement that would see him elected president in 1980.
Remember Little Rock by Erin Krutko Devlin (University of Massachusetts Press; 242 pages; $90 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). A study of the public memory of the 1957 school-desegregation crisis in the Arkansas capital.
Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937 by Maggie Clinton (Duke University Press; 268 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Focuses on the Blue Shirts and the CC Clique in a study of fascist groups that operated under the umbrella of the Guomindang or Chinese Nationalist Party; describes how such groups linked Confucianism to a particular approach to industrial development.
Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley by Michael E. Groth (State University of New York Press; 246 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Focuses on Dutchess County, New York, before and after abolition.
The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness by Monica R. Gisolfi (University of Georgia Press; 128 pages; $59.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Draws on oral histories, USDA files, and other sources in a study of the shift from small to industrial-scale poultry farming in north Georgia and the displacement of tens of thousands of farmers.
Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861--1865 by Thomas W. Cutrer (University of North Carolina Press; 608 pages; $40). A military operational history of the war’s western theater, from Missouri to California.
The Truth of the Russian Revolution: The Memoirs of the Tsar’s Chief of Security and His Wife by Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva, translated by Vladimir G. Marinich (State University of New York Press; 337 pages; $95). First English translation of the memoirs of the man who served as the chief of the Okhrana, or czarist secret police, during the two years preceding the revolution; also includes a more personal account by his wife.
Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War by Gregg A. Brazinsky (University of North Carolina Press; 448 pages; $39.95). Examines how the U.S.-Chinese rivalry for influence in developing nations shaped U.S. decisions to use both hard and soft power in the third world.
Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914--1940 by Andrew Orr (Indiana University Press; 192 pages; $75 hardcover, $30 paperback). Draws on previously untapped sources in a study of civilian women employed by the French Army during the period.
HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War by David P.D. Munns (University of Pittsburgh Press; 334 pages; $49.95). Examines the history of climate-controlled laboratories for the plant sciences known as phylotrons, beginning with a facility at CalTech in 1949.
LAW
Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan by David G. Dalin (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England; 350 pages; $35). A collective biography of Justices Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, and Elena Kagan.
LINGUISTICS
Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts by Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden (Oxford University Press; 171 pages; $99 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Develops a theory of variations in form between semantic equivalents across languages.
LITERATURE
Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Gwen Athene Tarbox (University Press of Mississippi; 359 pages; $70). Includes essays on works by such authors as Gene Luen Yang, Nate Powell, Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki, Raina Telgemeier, and Sherman Alexie.
Gulag Letters by Arsenii Formakov, edited and translated by Emily D. Johnson (Yale University Press/Hoover Institution Press; 294 pages; $85). Translation of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and journalist during two terms in Soviet labor camps---1940-47 in Kraslag and 1949 to 1955 in Kamyshlag and Ozerlag.
Liffey and Lethe: Paramnesiac History in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Ireland by Patrick R. O’Malley (Oxford University Press; 269 pages; $90). Examines representations of Ireland’s past in 19th-century Irish literature, with particular attention to works by Anglo-Irish Protestant nationalists; works discussed include Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl, M.L. O’Byrne’s Leixlip Castle, and Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer.
The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place by Jos Smith (Bloomsbury Academic; 226 pages; $120). Combines archival, interview, and other sources in a study of new approaches to landscape writing in Britain and Ireland in recent years, including works by such writers as Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, Tim Robinson, and Alice Oswald.
Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 edited by Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane (University of Minnesota Press; 400 pages; $120 hardcover, $30 paperback). Combines essays about literature for black children with examples of such writings.
MUSIC
Fiddler’s Dream: Old-Time, Swing, and Bluegrass Fiddling in Twentieth-Century Missouri by Howard Wight Marshall (University of Missouri Press; 427 pages; $29.95; includes a compact disk of archival recordings). Focuses on changes in fiddle music in Missouri from the 1920s to the 1960s.
I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B by Andrew Flory (University of Michigan Press; 344 pages; $90 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Topics include how Motown’s music was shaped by the ideals of Detroit’s postwar black middle class.
PHILOSOPHY
Humanism and the Death of God: Searching for the Good After Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche by Ronald E. Osborn (Oxford University Press; 256 pages; $80). Uses the work of the three 19th-century thinkers to examine morally problematic implications of philosophical naturalism for humanistic values; offers a critique from the perspective of “classically orthodox” Christianity.
I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant, and Back Again by Beatrice Longuenesse (Oxford University Press; 257 pages; $45). Topics include affinities between Freud’s concept of “ego” and Kant’s “transcendental unity of apperception” expressed in the phrase “I think.”
Kant’s Political Legacy: Human Rights, Peace, Progress by Luigi Caranti (University of Wales Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 303 pages; $130). Focuses on writings from the 1780s and 90s in a study of the German philosopher’s view of freedom, human rights, peace, and history.
Understanding “I": Language and Thought by Jose Luis Bermudez (Oxford University Press; 160 pages; $40). Examines the role of self-conscious thoughts in action and cognition.
The Virtues of Freedom: Selected Essays on Kant by Paul Guyer (Oxford University Press; 314 pages; $115 hardcover, $40 paperback). Includes some previously unpublished and previously untranslated writings.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
China, The United States, and the Future of Southeast Asia: U.S.-China Relations, Volume II edited by David B.H. Denoon (New York University Press; 512 pages; $99 hardcover, $40 paperback). Essays on such topics as China’s economic approach to ASEAN, and how Indonesia handles its great-power relations.
Governing Through Goals: Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation edited by Norichika Kanie and Frank Biermann (MIT Press; 333 pages; $90 hardcover, $35 paperback). Essays that examine goal setting as a governance strategy; focuses on the 17 goals adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
RELIGION
The Collected Works of Hanserd Knollys: Pamphlets On Religion edited by William L. Pitts Jr. and Rady Roldan-Figueroa (Mercer University Press; 258 pages; $45). Edition of writings by a 17th-century Anglican turned Baptist minister and apologist, who experienced both imprisonment and exile for his dissenting faith.
Phenomenologies of Scripture edited by Adam Y. Wells (Fordham University Press; 209 pages; $115 hardcover, $32 paperback). Writings that reflect the theological turn in French phenomenology.
The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen: The Last Active Anglican Generation by Abby Day (Oxford University Press; 257 pages; $70). Offers an ethnographic perspective on Anglican laywomen born in the 1920s and 30s; focuses on one mainstream church in southern England, with comparative discussion based on visits to other British and international congregations.
Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings edited by Catherine A. Brekus (Yale University Press; 402 pages; $40). Edition of writings by a Rhode Island wife, mother, and schoolteacher (1714-96,) who led evangelical revival meetings in her Newport home, and who left thousands of pages of correspondence, diary entries, and a memoir, as well as some published works.
A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley edited by Mary C. Sullivan (Catholic University of America Press; 205 pages; $19.95). Reconstructs, through notes taken, the oral instructions given by the Irish nun who founded the Sisters of Mercy, in 1831.
Suspicious Moderate: The Life and Writings of Francis a Sancta Clara (1598--1680) by Anne Ashley Davenport (University of Notre Dame Press; 684 pages; $75). An intellectual biography of the English Catholic theologian; identifies him as “Philip Scot,” author of the earliest English discussions of Hobbes.
Theology and Form: Contemporary Orthodox Architecture in America by Nicholas Denysenko (University of Notre Dame Press; 306 pages; $60). Examines links between ecclesiastical identity and physical space in seven Orthodox parishes, some that purchased existing edifices and others that constructed new buildings.
SOCIOLOGY
Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification by Allen Chun (State University of New York Press; 288 pages; $95). Focuses on how Chineseness is shaped by specific settings and histories, whether in the PRC, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, or diasporic communities.
Mothers at Work: Who Opts Out? by Liana Christin Landivar (Lynne Rienner Publishers; 239 pages; $69.95). Documents how occupation, working conditions, age, and other factors affect whether women leave outside employment after having children.
The Sociology of Howard S. Becker: Theory with a Wide Horizon by Alain Pessin, translated by Steven Rendall (University of Chicago Press; 133 pages; $25). Translation of a 2004 intellectual biography of the American sociologist Becker (b. 1928) by the French libertarian sociologist Pessin (1949-2005).
SPORTS STUDIES
Kansas Baseball, 1858-1941 by Mark E. Eberle (University Press of Kansas; 400 pages; $45 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). A history of the sport in the state, with special attention to teams of immigrants, women, American Indians, African-Americans, and Mexican-Americans.
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